The Portland daily press., 1887-03-26
PERSONAL.

Mr. W. e. S. Whitman of Augusta was in
the city yesterday.
Mr. Thomas R. Hill. son of Rev. DIR.
Ihomas Hill, is in town. He is convalescent
from his recent serious illness.
Rev. S. E. Herrick, d. D., of Boston, will
deliver the annual address before the Bangor
Seminary Rhetorical Society at the ami
versary in June.
Captain Washington Ilsley, commander Oh
the Sarah Sands, the pioneer English steamer
into this port, is on few days visit to
friends in this city.
Mr.. f. Z. Doe of Hopkinton, Mass, writes
Col. Atwood that with his family he VIII
move to Caribou nextw This Is the hrst
result of the recent Aroostook meeting held
in Boston.
Miss Belle Grover, employed in Hatha-
ways shirt mandatory in Wateryille, has
accepted call to go to Africa as a mission
airy. She will leave for her field of labor in
few weeks, says the Sentinel.
Gen. John L. Richards of Gardiner, who
met with severe injury at the muster in
Bangor last fall by having his horse fall
upon him, and who is passing the winter in
California, has greatly improved in health
and is now nearly as well as ever. He will
not return home till the middle or latter part
of May.
| A. W. Ramsay, j. Holman, Z. A. Laudon,
ii. Hersfeld, Thos. f. James, New York; A.
Shelley, w. i. Ward, F. ii. Body, W. H.
Nendell, W. A. Dakin, Boston; j. B. Shaw,
Lewiston; j. NJ Watkins, Greenfield; and
BENZ. f. Chadbourn, Biddeford, were among
| the arrivals at the United States Hotel yes
| terday.
Reuben Leland and A. NJ. Judson, men,
bers of the New York Stock Exchange, Hon
]. b, Stearns of Shot Hills, N. j., E. Kim
ball and John r. Prescott of Boston, and
Miss Ella Cleveland Henderson, public
singer of Boston, will build summer houses
at Camden. Mr.. Stearns's will cost $50sO00.
Hon. Samuel d. Lesvitt of Eastport, Col
lector of Customs at the Passamaquoddy
District was in the city yesterday. He says
the people of Eastport are preparing to re-
build on an extensive scale that the 100000
voted by Congress for new Custom House
| will build magnificent edifice that will be
credit to the town. Mr.. Leavitt says the
people Of his town are hopeful Of the future,
and that ancient town will arise from its
ashes more beautiful than ever
| Miss Staples, lately assistant in Bridgton
and Fryeburg Academies, and who with a
party of friends is travelling in Europe, was
| in Italy during the late earthquakes there,
| in which so many lives were lost. While
she was writing to lady friend in North
Bridgton the house was suddenly shaken to
an alarming extent; but she soon resumed
writing, and finished the epistle by chron-
icing the safety of the whole American
| party.
| Major Fred c. Low, late of Company il,
First Maine Heavy Artllie-y. desires to OBJ
tain the addresses 81 che following members
| of his elSs company: John w. Beede. Sergt
Henry Bell, Sergt. Joseph r. Atkins, Am
brose Boyle, John Chapman, Charles w.
Jones, Henry ]. Kimball, Corporal Benja-
min Y. Hatch, James Loughrey. Charles
w. Lunt, Charles ii. Lord, John H. Mason,
James B. Robbins, John Richardson, Charles
Stade, Charles H. Stewart, Peter Tibdo,
William II. Wakefield, and George F. Will
son. Information relative to any Of the
above may be sent to Major Low at Bangor.
Professor William NJ. Barbour, formerly of
the Bangor Theological Seminary, and now
OF Yale University, has been chosen princi-
pal Of the Congregational College of British
North America. This college, along with
others of UNCONVENTIONAL order, although
not forming a part of the McGill University
at Montreal, is so affiliated with it as to have
its students in constant attendance at the
university classes. The college buildings
with the principals official residence over
look the McGill campus, all being puilt under
"The Mountain in one of the most at
| tractive parts of the city.